WendyDarling wrote:You don't see your 'lil self staring down the camera with the, "I'm not playing along with this staged photo because I'd rather be reading an advanced chemistry book, so hurry up and take the picture, I have research to get back to?" Do you smile for pictures now?

I can't! Or, wait. Is there a little smile?

You were a handsome little boy.

Thanks.

Arcturus Descending wrote:Was that really a smile?

A little smile only.

Arcturus Descending wrote:More like an "I dare you" kind of look.Intense and precocious though I may be wrong.

Perhaps, perhaps not. I abstain from such a judgement. May others judge whether I was precocious or not.

Magnus Anderson wrote:Why do you consider power and love to be antagonistic?

I have never considered power and love to be antagonistic.

This is what I have said:

Arminius wrote:

Arcturus Descending wrote:I think that love evolved (if we can use that word) as a way to not only perpetuate the human species but to save it. There are different forms of love. I think that love is like the ocean, it ebbs and it flows

Your daughter was beautiful. It also says something about you that you would not insert your children online when they are young. I can never understand the human's need to show off their children rather than to protect them.

You are also loyal to your friends I have found.

Thank you very much.

You are right.

The evolution (if we can use that word) of love is not only a way to perpetuate the human species but also to save it. We can observe this process in those families where parents protect their children as much as it is necessary for the children’s development.

Love is needed for both phylogenesis and ontogenesis. Without love there is no evolution, at least not for "higher“ living beings. The "higher“ the living beings are, the more love they need.

Here on ILP are many (too many?) members who are saying that the will to power is the only aspect when it comes to evolution; but that is only one side of the evolutionary "coin“, the other one is the will to love.

We should have both a realistic and an idealistic interpretation of evolution. Power is always present, but love is not. So, it is more necessary to support, to demand, to premote love. How should we do this? - [1] By practising love; [2] by enlighten others and clarifying what love means; (3) by fighting all enemies of love (how? => [1] and [2]).

You can find the most lack of love in materialistic/hedonistic times where the individual coolness is a fashion and mostly nothing else than hidden weakness because of the lack of love.

No consideration of antagonism between power and love!

Loveable people can be powerful, powerful people can be loveable.

But there are many (too many?) people who have diceded upon only one of the two .

But consider this. Consider a father who loves his son. What does that mean? It means that the father cares for the wellbeing of his son. It means that he wants his son to be powerful. And not only that, it means that he is motivated to do whatever has to be done in order to make his son as powerful as possible. So love, at least in this isolated case, has to do with power. But not necessarily your own power.

Also, in order to be able to love, you must have some sort of power. You cannot love if you have no power.

Power can be used for the purpose of destruction. You show no love to that which you destroy. You kill an animal or a man. That's power but that's no love. So power isn't necessarily love but love is necessarily power.

I got a philosophy degree, I'm not upset that I can't find work as a philosopher. It was my decision, and I knew that it wasn't a money making degree, so I get money elsewhere.-- Mr. Reasonable

But consider this. Consider a father who loves his son. What does that mean? It means that the father cares for the wellbeing of his son. It means that he wants his son to be powerful. And not only that, it means that he is motivated to do whatever has to be done in order to make his son as powerful as possible. So love, at least in this isolated case, has to do with power. But not necessarily your own power.

Also, in order to be able to love, you must have some sort of power. You cannot love if you have no power.

Power can be used for the purpose of destruction. You show no love to that which you destroy. You kill an animal or a man. That's power but that's no love. So power isn't necessarily love but love is necessarily power.

Love can be destruction if it is a mercy killing, putting someone or an animal you love out of its misery.

I AM OFFICIALLY IN HELL!

I live my philosophy, it's personal to me and people who engage where I live establish an unspoken dynamic, a relationship of sorts, with me and my philosophy.

Cutting folks for sport is a reality for the poor in spirit. I myself only cut the poor in spirit on Tues., Thurs., and every other Sat.

Just a few days ago, I decided to ignore my aunt's cry for help. She was apparently in deep pain. She was beggining to be turned around (she couldn't do it due to paraplegia.) I choose not do so. In fact, I even considered telling her directly that I didn't want to do so. Mind you, I didn't want her to die or to suffer. I just didn't want to give into her whims. I thought she was quite whimsical. After two hours of ignoring her I decided to help her. Her consciousness started to degrade at a very fast rate every since. She died three days later. She had a metastasis, so I was aware that she was going to die, but not this fast. I feel a little bit of guilt. Perhaps if I helped her that night she wouldn't have died . . . that thought haunts me in my dreams. But I am not sure that it is justified. She refused professional help and she relied too much on me. I am no nurse. I wanted to help. But I didn't want to offer her the kind of "help" she asked for. Sometimes, you want to let people suffer. It is the right choice. She denied that she was sick. In fact, she denied she was in pain. She didn't want me to hire a professional nurse to take care of her. There was no other choice.

I got a philosophy degree, I'm not upset that I can't find work as a philosopher. It was my decision, and I knew that it wasn't a money making degree, so I get money elsewhere.-- Mr. Reasonable

Magnus Anderson wrote:Just a few days ago, I decided to ignore my aunt's cry for help. She was apparently in deep pain. She was beggining to be turned around (she couldn't do it due to paraplegia.) I choose not do so. In fact, I even considered telling her directly that I didn't want to do so. Mind you, I didn't want her to die or to suffer. I just didn't want to give into her whims. I thought she was quite whimsical. After two hours of ignoring her I decided to help her. Her consciousness started to degrade at a very fast rate every since. She died three days later. She had a metastasis, so I was aware that she was going to die, but not this fast. I feel a little bit of guilt. Perhaps if I helped her that night she wouldn't have died . . . that thought haunts me in my dreams. But I am not sure that it is justified. She refused professional help and she relied too much on me. I am no nurse. I wanted to help. But I didn't want to offer her the kind of "help" she asked for. Sometimes, you want to let people suffer. It is the right choice. She denied that she was sick. In fact, she denied she was in pain. She didn't want me to hire a professional nurse to take care of her. There was no other choice.

Magnus, I think this shows that you have a very strong resolve, but that you also have a living conscience within you.

^ This incident may (or it may not) be a case where the two have come into conflict. I think you have to decide what counts for you, at least in this case, as strength and weakness.

Perhaps, perhaps not. I abstain from such a judgement. May others judge whether I was precocious or not.

We would probably need the concert of many or at least a few voices from the past carried into the present to establish that. Does past behavior necessarily determine future behavior albeit past *experience* may very well.

Joseph Joubert ~~

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory but progress.

“We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.”

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

But consider this. Consider a father who loves his son. What does that mean? It means that the father cares for the wellbeing of his son. It means that he wants his son to be powerful. And not only that, it means that he is motivated to do whatever has to be done in order to make his son as powerful as possible. So love, at least in this isolated case, has to do with power. But not necessarily your own power.

Also, in order to be able to love, you must have some sort of power. You cannot love if you have no power.

Power can be used for the purpose of destruction. You show no love to that which you destroy. You kill an animal or a man. That's power but that's no love. So power isn't necessarily love but love is necessarily power.

Magnus Anderson wrote:Maybe you are saying that power should be used to create and not merely to destroy.I can agree with that.

Perhaps, perhaps not. I abstain from such a judgement. May others judge whether I was precocious or not.

We would probably need the concert of many or at least a few voices from the past carried into the present to establish that. Does past behavior necessarily determine future behavior albeit past *experience* may very well.

Since my puberty I have been looking younger, first one, then two, three, four, five and at last even ten years younger than I should according to my respective real age. But that has nothing to do with precociousness. Precociousness has to do with the predisposition of being precocious; so it is more a question of the genotype than of the phenotype. Or do you mean that the look, outwardness or other formality of the appearance can clearly show precociousness. Is, for instance, a full beard of an fourteen year old "boy" really a sign of precociousness? If so, then I have never been precocious. I was one of the last three or four (out of 40) pupils in my school class who became pubescent. I think that the word "precociousness" means something different, namely something that has to do with the behavior. Relating to this I can likely say that I was precocious. I do not know for sure. Therefore I said:

Perhaps, perhaps not. I abstain from such a judgement. May others judge whether I was precocious or not.

Trying to understand what you exactly meant by "precociousness", I googled the word and found not only other words, but also some photos.

Does one of the following four photos show - more or less - the meaning of "precociousness"?If so: Which one ist it?

In every case one can find also other reasons (e.g.: autism, wrong or unidirectional education) why those kids are what we think they are. They are not or not necessarily precocious. Or are they (according to you)?

Magnus Anderson wrote:Just a few days ago, I decided to ignore my aunt's cry for help. She was apparently in deep pain. She was beggining to be turned around (she couldn't do it due to paraplegia.) I choose not do so. In fact, I even considered telling her directly that I didn't want to do so. Mind you, I didn't want her to die or to suffer. I just didn't want to give into her whims. I thought she was quite whimsical. After two hours of ignoring her I decided to help her. Her consciousness started to degrade at a very fast rate every since. She died three days later. She had a metastasis, so I was aware that she was going to die, but not this fast. I feel a little bit of guilt. Perhaps if I helped her that night she wouldn't have died . . . that thought haunts me in my dreams. But I am not sure that it is justified. She refused professional help and she relied too much on me. I am no nurse. I wanted to help. But I didn't want to offer her the kind of "help" she asked for. Sometimes, you want to let people suffer. It is the right choice. She denied that she was sick. In fact, she denied she was in pain. She didn't want me to hire a professional nurse to take care of her. There was no other choice.

I've met lots of people who are so desperate for attention, care, and "love" that they will hurt themselves to get it. I knew of a couple that had a psychopathic relationship. The girlfriend would literally hold her boyfriend hostage with threats of suicide. "If you don't love me then I'll kill myself." It's very cruel and selfish by the person who makes such demands. They are usually women who do this, but sometimes children. Males usually do not do this because of having lesser value. It's a very depraved and ignoble disposition, without pride, without honor.

Then again, there are those with too much pride, too much honor, and never ask for help when they should, or when they need to. So there's two sides to this phenomenon.

I'm doing my thing. I've decided that I'm terminally ill... requiring soothing routines (like morphine would be for late stage cancer) - and that's my life unless a "miracle" happens... these soothing elements have become such a part of my life by now, I may keep them even if something "miraculous" happens

I'm doing my thing. I've decided that I'm terminally ill... requiring soothing routines (like morphine would be for late stage cancer) - and that's my life unless a "miracle" happens... these soothing elements have become such a part of my life by now, I may keep them even if something "miraculous" happens

Well that's one way to force yourself to make life more interesting / more palatable... like when someone decides to say 'yes' to everything. I did that a few years back.. it got real boring real quick, and the only things I'd have been saying yes to would be sex drugs and rock n roll.. I ain't part of the great de-bauched.

The temple mount will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and all the nations of the world will be ruled from there. All races, cultures, leaders, and nations will come to bow before the new messiah yet to come. All will come to know the chosen of God who refer themselves as Jews. For every Jew there will be a thousand goyim that will be their slaves as it was ordained by God. Every man, woman, and child will convert to Zionism.

Just have been working and chilling. Got a promotion with this job I have and work where I live since I do property management. I haven't been doing much philosophy really. Usually people always disagree just to disagree.

A "god" who deserves worship will be humble enough to reject it; A "god" who demands worship will not be worthy of it.

All smoke fades, as do all delicate mirrors shatter.

"My ancestors are smiling on me, Imperials. Can you say the same?"

"Science Fiction today ~ Science Fact tomorrow"

Change is inevitable, it can only be delayed or sped up. Choose wisely.

Artimas wrote:Just have been working and chilling. Got a promotion with this job I have and work where I live since I do property management. I haven't been doing much philosophy really. Usually people always disagree just to disagree.